Condition: Near Mint, Age discoloration, from Berkeley Bonaparte mailed Brigitte Bardot Poster promotion Postcards (handbills) to buyers and distributed blank back postcards to local vinyls and collectibles stores.
Size: 5 1/16" x 7 1/8"
Printed: 1967 Berkeley Bonaparte
Orignal Poster Photo by Herman Scoop

Berkeley Bonaparte was a Bay Area poster art company founded in 1967 by illustrators Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson. The “Big Five,” as they came to be known, had developed a following designing posters to advertise local rock concerts, promoted by Bill Graham, at the Fillmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom. Many of these posters, for shows that are now the stuff of legend, became the backbone of the Berkeley Bonaparte line. While the company (or “collective,” as the owners described it) wasn’t the first to sell posters, it popularized the practice within youth culture, and the explosive colors and subversive flourishes virtually defined the psychedelic style. Soon the walls of every teen’s bedroom and college dorm room in the country hosted Middle Earth and “Can-a-blis.”